an act of increasing or making something increase in size, amount or importance扩张；扩展；扩大；膨胀- a period of rapid economic expansion经济迅猛发展期
- Despite the recession the company is confident of further expansion.尽管经济衰退，公司对进一步扩展仍充满信心。🔊🔊
- The expansion of higher education will continue.高等教育将继续扩大规模。
- The book is an expansion of a series of lectures given last year.本书是去年举行的系列讲座的扩充。🔊🔊
Extra Examples- He opposed expansion of the army and navy.他反对扩张陆军和海军。
- In order to finance expansion on this scale, the government has relied heavily on borrowing.为了在财政上支持如此规模的发展，政府严重依赖于借贷。
- Russian expansion to the East and South俄罗斯向东和向南的扩张
- She proposed a modest expansion of unemployment benefits.她提议适度扩大失业救济。
- The board decided to embark on aggressive overseas expansion.董事会决定着手积极拓展海外业务。
- The company believes there is scope for expansion in this sector.公司相信这一行业还有发展的空间。
- The economy is still showing healthy expansion.经济仍显示出健康发展的势头。
- The museum is undergoing a major expansion.这座博物馆正在进行大面积的扩建。
- The rate of expansion of our overseas trade has been spectacular.我们海外贸易的发展速度非常惊人。
- a great age of expansion in trade and science贸易和科学发展的大好时期
- an $80 million expansion of its Madras factory其所属的马德拉斯工厂一项花费 8,000 万美元的扩展项目
- expansion into the luxury car market向豪华轿车市场进军
- the largest prison expansion in American history美国历史上最大规模的监狱扩建
Topics Change, cause and effectb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + expansionexpansion + verbexpansion + nounpreposition- expansion into
- expansion in
- expansion to
- …
phrases- a period of expansion
- the rate of expansion
- potential, room, scope, etc. for expansion
- …
See full entry Word Originearly 17th cent.: from late Latin expansio(n-), from Latin expandere ‘to spread out’, from ex- ‘out’ + pandere ‘to spread’.